Sleeping Dogs Now Free For Xbox Live Gold Members

Microsoft has announced January’s Games with Gold lineup. The first of the two titles goes live on New Year’s Day.

From January 1 through January 15, 2014, Xbox Live Gold members will be able to download United Front Games’ Sleeping Dogs. This open world crime drama features action on both sides of the law as detective Wei Shen goes undercover in the streets of Hong Kong.

From January 16 through January 31, 2014, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, a co-op puzzle platformer, will be free. In order to download the games, you’ll need to be an Xbox Live Gold member. Once you have them though, they are yours, regardless of ongoing membership status.

Our TakeThis is the most impressive Xbox Live Games with Gold month yet. Sleeping Dogs is a fantastic experience, and Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light was a breath of fresh air in the series darker times (before the reboot). Keep this up, Microsoft, and people might just start warming up to your free game program. Here's hoping some of the DLC goes on sale (especially for us Legacy of Kain fans).

Great news! I traded in Sleeping Dogs a while back and this will give me a good reason to go back and finish it. I've always heard good things about Guardian of Light so this'll be a good chance to finally check it out.

Wow, I've really been wanting to try Sleeping Dogs lately but was hesitant because I've been burned by non-GTA sandbox games before. I guess I have no excuse now. I hope MS keeps improving GWG, but I'm going to have to get serious about clearing hard drive space if they do.

Oh Microsoft and their monopoly mindset.
"If we release a poor product long enough, perhaps our competitors will match us in the interest of boning our customers."
They managed to get Sony on multiplayer fees and thankfully failed miserably on converting Sony and Nintendo to the Xbone way of business. They better fail at diluting plus as well.

Already have both of those games from PS+ for quite awhile. Still, this is at least a better showing by MS. Perhaps someday the services can be comparable. For now, PS+ is still miles ahead. I honestly don't know how Sony even makes money with how much they give away.

Sucks that you can only download them in a 2 week timespan, Playstation has the Instant Game Collection with plus, which means if you got a playstation console later then you would have a boatload of games to play instantly.